We’re hiring a CORE and Stone Centre Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Economics Education and Inequality. More details and how to apply: tinyco.re/3618199

Job opportunity Project staff member (pre-doc) at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Jobportal others in Wien

We're hiring!

@ineq-wu.bsky.social (@wuvienna.bsky.social) is looking for a Pre-Doc Researcher to study wage inequality using Austrian administrative microdata alongside @lukaslehner.bsky.social and me.

Details and application:
wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Project-staf...

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science.

Here’s what we found 👇

📢New WP: Minimum Wages and Workplace Injuries

Using California state and local minimum wage increases 2000-2019, we find minimum wage hikes increase workplace injury rates for low-wage workers. A plausible mechanism is work intensification

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w/ @rjisungpark.bsky.social & Michael Davies

The paradox of inequality that isn’t: rising economic inequality depresses and polarizes citizens’ belief in meritocracy Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat

🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy?

Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016

3 or 5. I love the "Born in the wrong place?" part!

Class Background Matters for Career Progression — in Academia and Beyond - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Anna Stansbury of MIT's Sloan School of Management and Kyra Rodriguez of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business discuss their Stone Center working paper: “The Class Gap ...

Socioeconomic background is notably absent from most research on elite career progression. In their blog post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar @annastansbury.bsky.social and Kyra Rodriguez of UC Berkeley discuss their forthcoming paper, "Class Background Matters for Career Progression."

Paper Title: Information Framing and Student Decisions: Evidence from an Opportunity Cost Intervention Authors: Lars Behlen, Raphael Brade, Oliver Himmler, Robert Jäckle Abstract: Opportunity costs are central to economic decision-making but often neglected. In a pre-registered experiment with 2,222 German university freshmen, one treatment provides salary information; another additionally frames it as the opportunity cost of delayed graduation. Only the opportunity cost framing causes students to update salary expectations. We find no effect on academic progress but a 2.8 percentage points increase in first-semester dropout (p=0.080), concentrated among high-dropout-probability students (5.9 pp, p=0.025). For these marginal students, dropping out instead of progressing faster is the actionable margin. By semester three, dropout rates converge, suggesting acceleration of eventual exits rather than additional dropouts. Keywords: natural field experiment, opportunity cost neglect, earnings expectations, academic achievement JEL Codes: C93, D84, D91, I21, I23

New WP!
We study whether telling first-year students about the earnings they forgo by delaying graduation changes their choices. Framing salaries as opportunity costs does not speed up progress but increases early dropout among students who are likely to exit eventually.
www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

Working on the gender wage gap? We have a new call for papers for a Special Issue of IR Berkeley. Check it out here: irle.berkeley.edu/publications... @ucberkeleyirle.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social

As we think about the safety net we might need to deal with job displacement risk, UI reform will be super important.

@alixgouldwerth.bsky.social and I have a new piece about our research on one perverse aspect of the UI system: its reliance on employer taxes that rise with benefit claims. 1/

So happy that this joint research “What makes hiring difficult: evidence for linked survey-administrative data” with Antoine Bertheau @antoineberthou.bsky.social and Zeyu Zhao is accepted for publication in European Economic Review.

drive.google.com/file/d/1QWqb...

UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies Conference invites submissions from all researchers using @clscohorts.bsky.social data.

Conference: 22–23 September. Submissions by: 8 April. cls.ucl.ac.uk/events/cls-c...

Will sent our titled PhD student. 😬

Econ PhD Chess is happening this Thursday Jan 22 at 10pm ET!

1 hour of 3+2 blitz against fellow econ enthusiasts, all skill levels welcome!

If you're not in the lichess group, fill our Google Form to get invited: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....

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Wait hinter dem coint muss noch irgendwas stecken damit Leute dafür Geld ausgeben? 😭

Vielleicht liegt es an meinem Job Market aber alles was ich lese ist das es eine Nachfrage gibt und sich damit Geld machen lässt. Wenn der Verkauf doch nicht läuft braucht es halt ein Ufo-Crypto. 🤔

Ben Casselman Ben Casselman is the chief economics correspondent for The Times. He has reported on the economy for nearly 20 years.

Heading to Philadelphia for the #ASSA2026. Presenting research you think our readers would be interested in? Working on something you think I should know about? Reach out here or by any of the ways linked in my bio: www.nytimes.com/by/ben-casse... #EconSky

All research is exploratory if you’re confused enough

Introducing The Union Bug, a new podcast The Union Bug is a podcast by workers, for workers. Premiering January 2.

Hello! I am excited to finally announce the details of my new podcast. Introducing The Union Bug—a podcast by workers, for workers. Premiering Jan 2.

The Econ Job Market is an emotional rollercoaster. But nothing lifts your mood like realizing your master’s thesis is cited in the Handbook of Labor Economics. 😭

Castro, R., Lange, F., & Poschke, M. (2025). Labor force transitions. Handbook of Labor Economics, 6, 819-881.

Thanks a lot Fabian! I can not describe how much I appreciate this. 😊

The Econ Job Market is an emotional rollercoaster. But nothing lifts your mood like realizing your master’s thesis is cited in the Handbook of Labor Economics. 😭

Castro, R., Lange, F., & Poschke, M. (2025). Labor force transitions. Handbook of Labor Economics, 6, 819-881.

I'm happy to share that I’ve been appointed Associate Professor of Strategy & Innovation at CBS.

Tenure has been a long road, and I'm grateful to everyone who supported me along the way — mentors, colleagues, friends, and especially my wife. Excited for what comes next.

Lukas Lehner Wins International Awards For Dissertation ➽ www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/lukas-lehner-wins-i...

@lukaslehner.bsky.social has received two international awards for his dissertation completed @ox.ac.uk @dspi-oxford.bsky.social

In her JMP titled, "How Men and Women Respond to Failure: Evidence from Chess Tournaments," she finds that men react to failure with riskier, less accurate play and are more likely to quit in the short run, while women stay resilient, but no significant differences in the long run.

Julia Engel | Econ Job Market Vlog | AYEW YouTube video by Monash Business School

Meet today’s featured JMC in our 2025 Econ Job Market Vlog series: Julia Engel (@juliaengel.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de), whose research focuses on labour and behavioural economics.

🎥 Check out her JMP video to learn more about her work: youtu.be/czLwBt75UOI?...

#econsky #econjobmarket

📢 #CallForApplications: Join the IWH #DoctoralProgramme in #Economics – Fall 2026 Intake!

✔️ Enjoy an excellent #research environment
✔️ Work closely with leading economists
✔️ Enter the international job market

📅 Deadline: 15 January 2026
👉 Apply here: jobs.iwh-halle.de/jobposting/b...

#PhD

Ja so steigt man ein. 6 Monate später dreht man ihnen dann aber Krypto an. Von irgendwas muss man ja auch leben.

✨ New IWH #DiscussionPaper ✨

📰 #Management Opposition, #Strikes and #Union Threat
🎓 By Patrick Nüß (@patricknuess.bsky.social)
👉 Read the full paper here #freeAccess: www.iwh-halle.de/en/publicati...

#research #economics #labour #labourdisputes #fieldexperiment #tradeunions #unionthreat